Me, Sexy? I'm Just Plain Ol' Beans

Me And My Sisters Were Taught That If Our Eyes Worked And Our Legs Worked, We Were Beautiful. We Had So Many Kids In Our Family That If We All Got In Front Of The Mirror And Were Ashamed Of Browns And Golds And Yellows And Whites, And We Believed What Society Told Us - That The Darker People Were Less Attractive And The Lighter Ones Were Prettier - We Would Have Had Sibling Murders. My Family, Being Half-rural And Half-military, Just Came From A Different Place.

I Consider Myself Conscious Of How Women Are Treated, And Sometimes I Can Be A Feminist. Sometimes I'm A Little Republican, Sometimes I'm A Little Democrat. Sometimes I'm Angry, Sometimes I'm Not Angry. I'm Not A Total Feminist, But I Believe In Rights For Females. I Believe That If We Have To Pay 100 Percent For Our College Tuition, And Then We Get Into The Workplace And We're Only Given 70 Percent Of Our Counterparts' Salaries, Then We Shouldn't Have To Pay But 70 Percent Of Our College Tuition. Maybe That'll Stop The Bullshit.

Struggle And Survival, Losing And Winning, Doesn't Matter. It's Entering The Race That Counts. You Enter, You Can Win, You Can Lose .... But It's All About Entering The Race.

I Tell Actresses, "if You're Too Tall, If You're Too Fat, You're Not Going To Work. I Don't Care How Talented You Are." It's A Business, And Sex Sells.

Everyone Else Can Do Violence. You Know, Clint Eastwood, Sylvester Stallone, They Can All Do Shoot-'em-ups. Arnold Schwarzenegger Can Kill 10 People In One Minute, And They Don't Call It "white Exploitation." They Win Awards And Get Into All The Magazines. But If Black People Do It, Suddenly It's Different Than If A White Person Does It. People Respond Differently Because People Come From Different Places.